Tiger Bread is dead. Long live Giraffe Bread

Last June, we ran a story about a 3-year-old girl named Lily, who had written to Sainsbury’s, asking them why their Tiger Bread was thus named when it looked more like the markings of a giraffe than a tiger. A fair point, and the supermarket rewarded Lily for her cleverness with a nice reply and a £3 gift card.

For some reason that we can’t quite fathom, the story has gone megaviral across the internet over the past few days, with almost 25,000 people visiting the original Bitterwallet story for our take on it.

Better still, Sainsbury’s have today announced that they’ll be acting on young Lily’s advice and changing the name of their Tiger Bread to Giraffe Bread. If the change proves popular, the new name will stay – and we assume Lily will get a royalty for every loaf sold? Yes? YES? Hmmm….

What the fuck is wrong with these people? I expect they’re all eating their animal-themed breads with their iPhones and BMW/Audis and sending this nation to hell. I blame the BBC and their Downturn fucking Abbey.

Personally, I use my fingers to eat my bread. I’ve never tried it with an iPhone or any kind of car. While I suspect it might be a bit tricky, I’m not certain it’d have any lasting effect on this nation?

However you’re right – the BBC are to blame for all of this. Them and that show they don’t make.

Fuck pissing about renaming loaves of bread. Get your arse into some stores where you’ll see customers pissing and moaning left right and centre about the lack of staff on tills, and another load of customers being harassed by droid robot self service bullshit complaining of unexpected item in the half-arsed-method-of seeing-if-you’re-trying-to-steal-stuff area.

@tin – Both of my local Sainsburys never have that problem, at Christmas every single till was open and generally once it gets more than 2 customers deep they’ll start opening more, maybe you should write to your local branch manager suggesting that it’s letting him down? Although I’d suggest using slightly less tourettes based language than you are currently.

In other news, foul mouthed Bitterwallet regular, Mike Hock, punched a 3-year-old in face, whilst she rescued a kitten, for complaining to Sainsburys about their quirky bread. In an interview, Mr Hock stated it was the BBC with their Downturn ‘Fucking’ Abbey, BMWs, Audis and iPhones that were to blame.